...and now even a new forum. I'm looking forward to find some interesting informations about Matrox cards (which I still consider as the best analog devices for quality at big resolutions), since I've changed from G450 (*sigh*) to P650, cause I believed somehow that some annoyances would be gone .

This is very nice forum. I'm sure it will help many Linux users!Thanks and good luck!

Thanks!

Did you ever planned to create sub-forums for the installation/configuring problems on Windows systems?

Not really, because I don't use Windows on the machines that have Matroxcards installed.The reason for not having Windows Sub-Forums is, that I can't be of any helpfor Windows users out there and as long as there is noone that can offersupport for Windows users, there won't be Windows sub forums.

Providing Windows Subforums may let people think that they get supportfor their questions here and if posted questions remain unanswered thatwill not shed a good light on this forum.

Again, if someone is willing to support Windows users, I'll open windowssubforums.

Why are the P-series are _much_better_ than the G-series?

The P-series cards feature newer technology and better performance, as well
as better compatibility and updated firmware.
As with all "old" products, the G-series cards will run out of support soon, I
suppose, so buying a G-series card for future compatibility is not a good
option in my eyes.

I did several benchmarks on the same tasks for G-series and P-series
cards and the P-series cards always performed better.
Additionally, looking at the driver source, the P-series cards driver has more
potential for future usages.
It's upon Matrox to make the best out of the P-series cards Linux drivers,
but the capabilities are there and therefore I hope that they will someday
recognize that and provide us with fullfeatured drivers that support all
features on the P-series cards that are currently supported for Microsoft
operating systems.

tuxx-home.at wrote:Not really, because I don't use Windows on the machines that have Matroxcards installed.The reason for not having Windows Sub-Forums is, that I can't be of any helpfor Windows users out there and as long as there is noone that can offersupport for Windows users, there won't be Windows sub forums.

Providing Windows Subforums may let people think that they get supportfor their questions here and if posted questions remain unanswered thatwill not shed a good light on this forum.

Is there any place(s) where I might find detailed info on the options availble for use with my card and the mga driver. I have looked at xorg.conf(5) manual page but it is generic of course and the xorg.conf file is only one place to set options that affect the card. Another is at kernel boot time in the grub loader menu.lst (vga=???) but I can't find much detail on these kinds of things.

Another is at kernel boot time in the grub loader menu.lst (vga=???) but I can't find much detail on these kinds of things.

There's no need to set the vga parameter at boot time for your Matrox
graphics card. The only reason why you may want to do this, is in case you're
running the matrox framebuffer driver (matroxfb) for framebuffer console
support on this graphic card.
The documentation for matroxfb can be found in your local kernel source
in the directory "/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt".
I also uploaded this file onto my webspace for easy viewing if you don't have
the kernel sources installed: